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Crooked (kr??k?d), a. 1. Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed. “Crooked paths.” Locke.
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he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere.
Shak.
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2. Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.
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They are a perverse and crooked generation.
Deut. xxxii. 5.
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3. False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.
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Crooked whisky, whisky on which the payment of duty has been fraudulently evaded. [Slang, U.S.] Barlett.
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